Sports & Outdoors
City of Rocks State Park
Check pricesA small New Mexico state park known for towering volcanic rock columns shaped by erosion, with camping and trails in the Chihuahuan desert.
Photo: Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
Museums
Western New Mexico University Museum
University museum on the Western New Mexico University campus in Silver City, focused on Southwest cultural heritage and university history.
Silver City, NM
About Western New Mexico University Museum
The museum sits on the main campus of Western New Mexico University in Silver City. Its stated mission is to explain the varied cultural and artistic traditions of Southwest New Mexico and to preserve the history of the university through research, collecting, exhibits, and interpretation. Visitors can see permanent exhibits and objects displayed in context, and the museum is run by the university, which has served the region as a public institution since 1893.
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- #Southwest heritage
- #local history
- #Silver City
- #campus museum
What's around here?
The closest stops to Western New Mexico University Museum, ordered by straight-line distance.
